How To: Perform a Blackberry System Test

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Woohoo for RIM having secret stuff in our OS and not telling us!!! Well I am spilling the beans. RIM has a secret little menu hiding inside your BlackBerry, as long as its running OS 4.2 or higher.

This little secret is a self diagnostic tool, which will help you figure out if something is wrong with your device.

To access this menu simply go options > status > then type the word test.

Once the application opens, click open your BB menu and click start.

Then simply check off the hardware you want to test.

This will be a handy tool if you need to check someones trackball/pad or other pieces of hardware.

Tried it. Its kool but not for your everyday user.
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You know you like it! Hook up the Rep?

It crashed my storm so be careful...
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What did you test?

It was testing everything in turn except the last one, SD Card InsertRemove Test (which I didnt want to test) and it got to Keypad backlight Test and failed to do anything except go black.
the only way to get it running again was a battery pull.

But the report says it passed lol

I am viewing the report now and its comprehensive to say the least.
I might try again without that test included.

so you are testing keypad backlight on a storm? maybe thats what freaked out. on my 9700 it worked fine. I passed everything.

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Originally Posted by TheOnlyJrod

so you are testing keypad backlight on a storm? maybe thats what freaked out. on my 9700 it worked fine. I passed everything.

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I know but it made me laugh!!!